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Volatilisation — Cropland nitrogen per unit area by country

The Cropland Nutrient balance domain contains information on the flows of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from mineral fertilizer, manure applied, atmospheric deposition, crop removal, and biological fixation over cropland and per unit area of cropland. The flows are aggregated to total inputs and total...

Countries reporting
203
Highest
1,027 kg/ha
Faroe Islands
Lowest
0 kg/ha
Guadeloupe
Median
19.73 kg/ha
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
13,500

What the numbers show

Volatilisation — Cropland nitrogen per unit area is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 1,027 kg/ha in Faroe Islands; the lowest is 0 kg/ha in Guadeloupe.

The median across all reporting countries is 19.73 kg/ha, and the mean is 33.4 kg/ha.

Over the past decade 108 countries rose and 94 fell. The largest increase was in Gambia (up 633.2%), and the largest decrease in Bahrain (down 93.3%).

Volatilisation — Cropland nitrogen per unit area: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Faroe Islands 1,027 kg/ha 2023 down 56.4% volatile
1 Micronesia (Federated States of) 60.1 kg/ha 2023 up 7.4% rising
2 Singapore 402.65 kg/ha 2023 down 6.8% volatile
2 Viet Nam 53.97 kg/ha 2023 down 3.0% volatile
3 Kuwait 199.33 kg/ha 2023 up 43.4% flat
4 China, Hong Kong SAR 189.33 kg/ha 2023 up 36.2% rising
4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 26.59 kg/ha 2023 down 26.0% rising
5 Brunei Darussalam 139.55 kg/ha 2023 up 13.0% volatile
5 Lao People's Democratic Republic 25.69 kg/ha 2023 up 90.7% rising
6 Belgium-Luxembourg 118.34 kg/ha 1999 down 13.1% rising
6 Türkiye 25.49 kg/ha 2023 up 22.4% volatile
7 Montenegro 116.68 kg/ha 2023 down 15.5% falling
7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 21.5 kg/ha 2023 up 22.5% volatile
8 Turkmenistan 109.95 kg/ha 2023 up 51.8% rising
8 Republic of Moldova 13.55 kg/ha 2023 up 58.1% flat
9 Egypt 96.92 kg/ha 2023 up 6.1% rising
10 Uzbekistan 86.79 kg/ha 2023 up 41.3% rising
10 Melanesia 9.66 kg/ha 2023 up 13.9% rising
11 Suriname 86.23 kg/ha 2023 up 129.1% rising
12 Belgium 82.87 kg/ha 2023 down 26.1% rising
12 Polynesia 7 kg/ha 2023 down 15.4% rising
13 Ireland 80.16 kg/ha 2023 down 4.1% rising
13 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 6.54 kg/ha 2023 down 5.9% rising
14 Costa Rica 71.59 kg/ha 2023 up 1.9% rising
14 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 5.36 kg/ha 2023 down 71.1% volatile
15 China, mainland 69.93 kg/ha 2023 down 13.3% rising
15 United Republic of Tanzania 5.33 kg/ha 2023 up 44.8% volatile
16 China 69.91 kg/ha 2023 down 13.3% rising
16 Syrian Arab Republic 3.51 kg/ha 2023 up 118.1% volatile
17 Republic of Korea 68.5 kg/ha 2023 up 14.7% rising
18 Barbados 68.25 kg/ha 2023 down 7.3% rising
18 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.8998 kg/ha 2023 up 61.0% rising
19 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 66.19 kg/ha 2023 down 5.2% falling
20 China, Taiwan Province of 66.01 kg/ha 2023 down 16.0% volatile
21 Trinidad and Tobago 65.45 kg/ha 2023 down 27.6% volatile
21 Caribbean 11.18 kg/ha 2023 down 8.1% falling
22 Qatar 63.31 kg/ha 2023 up 66.3% volatile
23 Bangladesh 60.43 kg/ha 2023 up 26.9% volatile
24 Mongolia 59.58 kg/ha 2023 up 91.2% rising
25 Norway 56.89 kg/ha 2023 up 7.4% rising
26 Switzerland 55.75 kg/ha 2023 down 8.0% falling
26 Cabo Verde 7.37 kg/ha 2023 down 10.7% volatile
27 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 53.39 kg/ha 2023 down 5.5% rising
28 Djibouti 53.02 kg/ha 2023 down 24.5% falling
29 Guyana 52.27 kg/ha 2023 down 7.1% rising
29 Côte d'Ivoire 2.23 kg/ha 2023 up 51.0% rising
30 Malta 52.21 kg/ha 2023 down 10.7% rising
31 Pakistan 48.06 kg/ha 2023 up 26.1% volatile
32 United Arab Emirates 47.84 kg/ha 2023 down 35.0% volatile
33 Colombia 45.47 kg/ha 2023 down 27.5% volatile
34 Denmark 43.75 kg/ha 2023 up 3.7% falling
35 Chile 42.97 kg/ha 2023 down 7.5% volatile
36 Jordan 42.11 kg/ha 2023 up 56.2% volatile
37 Belize 40.51 kg/ha 2023 up 1.4% volatile
38 Thailand 39.67 kg/ha 2023 up 60.4% volatile
39 New Caledonia 39.64 kg/ha 2023 up 4.1% rising
40 Tajikistan 39.63 kg/ha 2023 up 102.4% rising
41 France 37.72 kg/ha 2023 down 11.8% rising
42 Belarus 37.36 kg/ha 2023 down 5.2% rising
43 India 36.69 kg/ha 2023 up 21.5% volatile
44 Croatia 35.69 kg/ha 2023 up 4.9% flat
45 Czechia 35.5 kg/ha 2023 down 24.8% rising
46 Austria 35.39 kg/ha 2023 down 11.9% flat
47 Oman 34.65 kg/ha 2023 down 37.2% volatile
48 Seychelles 34.23 kg/ha 2023 up 51.0% volatile
49 Brazil 34.09 kg/ha 2023 up 36.8% volatile
50 Germany 34.06 kg/ha 2023 down 29.9% falling
51 Slovenia 33.42 kg/ha 2023 down 5.8% falling
52 Georgia 33.11 kg/ha 2023 up 104.4% rising
53 Poland 32.49 kg/ha 2023 up 3.8% rising
54 Iceland 31.54 kg/ha 2023 up 2.5% falling
55 Bosnia and Herzegovina 31.45 kg/ha 2023 down 2.6% rising
56 Cyprus 31.29 kg/ha 2023 down 9.1% rising
57 Bulgaria 30.79 kg/ha 2023 up 12.6% falling
58 Serbia 30.77 kg/ha 2023 down 31.3% falling
59 Luxembourg 30.47 kg/ha 2023 down 20.8% rising
60 Czechoslovakia 30.41 kg/ha 1992 down 41.4% rising
61 Dominican Republic 29.68 kg/ha 2023 up 32.0% rising
62 Slovakia 29.6 kg/ha 2023 down 4.0% rising
63 Uruguay 29.35 kg/ha 2023 up 3.0% volatile
64 Malawi 29.24 kg/ha 2023 up 252.8% volatile
65 Israel 28.8 kg/ha 2023 down 28.6% rising
66 Guatemala 28.45 kg/ha 2023 down 10.1% rising
67 Sweden 28.37 kg/ha 2023 up 4.9% flat
68 Japan 28.11 kg/ha 2023 down 0.8% falling
69 Indonesia 27.83 kg/ha 2023 up 9.2% volatile
70 Italy 27.71 kg/ha 2023 down 14.9% rising
71 Cook Islands 26.43 kg/ha 2023 down 24.2% volatile
72 Portugal 26.08 kg/ha 2023 down 14.2% rising
73 Honduras 26.01 kg/ha 2023 up 23.7% volatile
74 Lebanon 25.47 kg/ha 2023 down 17.1% rising
75 Panama 24.98 kg/ha 2023 up 45.1% rising
76 Mauritius 24.76 kg/ha 2023 down 26.7% rising
77 Nepal 24.12 kg/ha 2023 up 4.3% volatile
78 Hungary 23.72 kg/ha 2023 down 15.4% flat
79 Canada 23.66 kg/ha 2023 up 23.3% volatile
80 Saudi Arabia 23.42 kg/ha 2023 up 50.3% volatile
81 Puerto Rico 22.93 kg/ha 2023 down 10.6% rising
82 Spain 22.7 kg/ha 2023 down 11.2% rising
83 Greece 22.47 kg/ha 2023 up 8.9% flat
84 Yugoslav SFR 21.73 kg/ha 1991 down 25.4% rising
85 Philippines 21.7 kg/ha 2023 up 16.4% rising
86 Romania 21.67 kg/ha 2023 up 22.9% falling
87 Botswana 21.58 kg/ha 2023 down 16.1% volatile
88 Bahamas 21.5 kg/ha 2023 down 35.7% rising
89 Mexico 21.04 kg/ha 2023 up 0.8% rising
90 Ecuador 20.68 kg/ha 2023 down 28.0% volatile
91 Albania 20.47 kg/ha 2023 down 27.0% rising
92 Lithuania 20.38 kg/ha 2023 down 19.7% rising
93 Zambia 20.19 kg/ha 2023 up 53.3% volatile
94 Australia 19.91 kg/ha 2023 up 69.0% rising
95 Australia and New Zealand 19.87 kg/ha 2023 up 67.2% rising
96 El Salvador 19.73 kg/ha 2023 down 32.1% falling
97 Latvia 19.47 kg/ha 2023 down 2.8% rising
98 Tuvalu 19.04 kg/ha 2023 up 2.2% rising
99 Estonia 18.99 kg/ha 2023 down 3.9% rising
100 Saint Lucia 18.91 kg/ha 2023 up 27.7% falling
101 Nicaragua 18.62 kg/ha 2023 up 33.5% rising
102 Fiji 18.07 kg/ha 2023 up 15.9% rising
103 Malaysia 17.79 kg/ha 2023 down 28.0% volatile
104 New Zealand 17.65 kg/ha 2023 up 3.7% volatile
105 North Macedonia 17.3 kg/ha 2023 down 21.6% rising
106 USSR 17.24 kg/ha 1991 down 3.1% rising
107 Finland 17.23 kg/ha 2023 down 1.8% falling
108 Peru 16.92 kg/ha 2023 down 18.7% rising
109 Kyrgyzstan 16.43 kg/ha 2023 up 5.0% rising
110 Bahrain 16.28 kg/ha 2023 down 93.3% volatile
111 Jamaica 15.84 kg/ha 2023 down 11.2% rising
112 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 15.58 kg/ha 2023 down 6.9% volatile
113 Nauru 15.56 kg/ha 2023 up 0.9% rising
114 Sri Lanka 15.42 kg/ha 2023 down 16.1% rising
115 Grenada 15.21 kg/ha 2023 up 17.5% volatile
116 Maldives 14.57 kg/ha 2023 up 2.2% volatile
117 Eswatini 13.99 kg/ha 2023 up 22.8% rising
118 Cambodia 12.55 kg/ha 2023 up 55.0% rising
119 Antigua and Barbuda 12.21 kg/ha 2023 down 22.5% rising
120 Armenia 11.81 kg/ha 2023 down 68.3% volatile
121 Paraguay 11.17 kg/ha 2023 up 0.1% rising
122 Ethiopia 10.94 kg/ha 2023 up 117.2% rising
123 Iraq 10.63 kg/ha 2023 down 1.1% volatile
124 Argentina 10.5 kg/ha 2023 up 44.9% volatile
125 South Africa 10.25 kg/ha 2023 up 2.4% rising
126 Namibia 10.08 kg/ha 2023 up 111.1% volatile
127 Papua New Guinea 10.05 kg/ha 2023 up 18.3% rising
128 Azerbaijan 9.72 kg/ha 2023 up 77.6% volatile
129 Kenya 9.62 kg/ha 2023 up 8.1% rising
130 Ukraine 9.61 kg/ha 2023 down 13.0% rising
131 Zimbabwe 8.4 kg/ha 2023 up 70.5% falling
132 Morocco 8.17 kg/ha 2023 up 6.6% volatile
133 Russian Federation 8.17 kg/ha 2023 up 44.6% falling
134 Myanmar 8.1 kg/ha 2023 down 40.5% rising
135 Mauritania 7.58 kg/ha 2023 up 6.0% rising
136 Tonga 7.34 kg/ha 2023 down 5.3% rising
137 South Sudan 6.98 kg/ha 2023 up 24.9% rising
138 Bhutan 6.73 kg/ha 2023 down 5.5% rising
139 Samoa 6.34 kg/ha 2023 down 23.5% volatile
140 French Polynesia 6.25 kg/ha 2023 down 13.6% rising
141 Saint Kitts and Nevis 5.84 kg/ha 2023 up 12.2% volatile
142 Rwanda 5.72 kg/ha 2023 up 22.5% volatile
143 Burundi 5.64 kg/ha 2023 up 127.7% volatile
144 Sao Tome and Principe 5.61 kg/ha 2023 up 11.4% volatile
145 Gabon 5.53 kg/ha 2023 up 91.1% volatile
146 Benin 5.53 kg/ha 2023 up 269.9% volatile
147 Haiti 5.49 kg/ha 2023 up 5.5% falling
148 Madagascar 5.38 kg/ha 2023 up 28.3% rising
149 Togo 5.17 kg/ha 2023 up 96.3% volatile
150 Dominica 5.02 kg/ha 2023 down 42.9% volatile
151 Guinea-Bissau 4.98 kg/ha 2023 down 14.2% rising
152 Tunisia 4.93 kg/ha 2023 up 13.9% volatile
153 Chad 4.83 kg/ha 2023 up 69.2% volatile
154 Ghana 4.31 kg/ha 2023 up 50.9% volatile
155 Gambia 4.26 kg/ha 2023 up 633.2% volatile
156 Angola 4.24 kg/ha 2023 up 10.9% rising
157 Cuba 4.15 kg/ha 2023 down 57.5% volatile
158 Afghanistan 3.97 kg/ha 2023 down 2.9% rising
159 Yemen 3.88 kg/ha 2023 down 48.8% volatile
160 Mozambique 3.87 kg/ha 2023 up 51.3% rising
161 Uganda 3.86 kg/ha 2023 up 53.4% volatile
162 Burkina Faso 3.82 kg/ha 2023 down 12.8% volatile
163 Algeria 3.59 kg/ha 2023 up 12.4% rising
164 Lesotho 3.46 kg/ha 2023 down 58.7% volatile
165 Liberia 3.38 kg/ha 2023 down 5.8% rising
166 Mali 3.28 kg/ha 2023 down 24.7% rising
167 Eritrea 3.24 kg/ha 2023 up 9.3% falling
168 Cameroon 3.17 kg/ha 2023 up 13.0% rising
169 Sudan (former) 3.15 kg/ha 2011 up 1.3% rising
170 Kiribati 3.03 kg/ha 2023 down 4.9% volatile
171 Libya 2.93 kg/ha 2023 down 46.1% volatile
172 Sudan 2.92 kg/ha 2023 up 50.9% rising
173 Senegal 2.52 kg/ha 2023 down 29.0% volatile
174 Central African Republic 2.48 kg/ha 2023 down 23.6% volatile
175 Ethiopia PDR 2.35 kg/ha 1992 up 60.2% rising
176 Kazakhstan 2.31 kg/ha 2023 up 8.6% rising
177 Vanuatu 2.08 kg/ha 2023 down 33.4% rising
178 Nigeria 2.07 kg/ha 2023 down 33.2% volatile
179 Sierra Leone 1.66 kg/ha 2023 up 68.2% rising
180 Congo 1.62 kg/ha 2023 up 33.4% volatile
181 Solomon Islands 1.52 kg/ha 2023 down 38.7% rising
182 Equatorial Guinea 1.43 kg/ha 2023 up 36.3% volatile
183 Guinea 1.43 kg/ha 2023 up 67.0% volatile
184 Niger 0.7514 kg/ha 2023 up 28.9% rising
185 Comoros 0.6913 kg/ha 2023 up 60.4% rising
186 Guadeloupe 0 kg/ha 2023 — volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Volatilisation — Cropland nitrogen per unit area
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
233 places, 13,500 data points, 1961–2023
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The Cropland Nutrient balance domain contains information on the flows of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from mineral fertilizer, manure applied, atmospheric deposition, crop removal, and biological fixation over cropland and per unit area of cropland. The flows are aggregated to total inputs and total outputs, from which the overall nutrient balance and nutrient use efficiency on cropland are calculated. Statistics are disseminated in units of tonnes and in kg/ha, as appropriate. Nutrient use efficiency is expressed as a fraction (%).